the curse of bane
The Lakers are 6-14 since Desmond Bane said "Them footsteps ain't scaring nobody."Only the Rockets have fewer wins in that span. pic.twitter.com/M3tQ0UbfQg— StatMuse (@statmuse) February 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 February 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/f/f0/Bane_TDKR3.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/333?cb=20120511112335
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 28 February 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/f/f0/Bane_TDKR3.jpg
Ja 3P% has normalized back down to 33%
― Spottie, Monday, 28 February 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
bronny madison
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
sry, re: toand do a movie where he has to fool everyone into thinking he's high school age, wow i just solved everyone's problems all at once
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
― Spottie, Monday, February 28, 2022 3:16 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah and hes really not hunting 3s either
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 February 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
luckily for us the viewers at home nothing else about ja's game is particularly normal
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 28 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
yah its not effected his game TOO much but the wolves were pretty happy to let him shoot the other night
― Spottie, Monday, 28 February 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
yeah he needs to learn to shoot driving into a waiting defense isnt a long term plan
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 February 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
it will be interesting to see how defenses in the playoffs try and play them & what the grizz have in their bag to respond. they’re such menaces in transition that it gives them a pretty high floor as far as offensive rating in the regular season but they’ll have to show they can repeatedly score in the half court with teams daring ja to shoot. it’s not like they’ve haven’t seen it before but they’re at another level of expectation now and they still have some guys like bane and JJJ who don’t have much playoff experience to speak of
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 February 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
the thing with ja is he seems like a gamer. like in the play in game vs the dubs last year he hit at least 5 threes and the dubs were going under on every screen. shredded the scouting report. but in a long series its the right play. excited to see what theyre made of with their new confidence. the jazz handled them pretty easily in the first round last year.
― Spottie, Monday, 28 February 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
crazy that they’ve been missing dillon brooks for basically the entire season, looks like he’s coming back soon
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 February 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
i appreciate hollinger consistently laying out the real front office work even tho its basically irrelevant and tedious
Lakers cost themselves roughly $5M in tax payments and a small trade exception by not just sending cash to another team to take DeAndre Jordan at the trade deadline. Hey, it's the Buss's money, but that's some FO malpractice right there.— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) March 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
AND NOW MORANT THE BUZZER. IMPOSSIBLE pic.twitter.com/1XCSnM4k2j— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 1, 2022
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
Fultz hits the acrobatic layup 🔥 pic.twitter.com/QLkkvkCHsl— NBA TV (@NBATV) March 1, 2022
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
the pass on that morant shot
― Clay, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
Uhhhh this too
Ja Morant just had the dunk of the yearOh my pic.twitter.com/mzgJVlcOKR— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 1, 2022
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
UNREAL BUZZER BEATER BY JA 🚨 pic.twitter.com/ngxXk8w5xM— ESPN (@espn) March 1, 2022
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Ended with 52
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
"the thing with ja is he seems like a gamer."
Left to go hike before Spottie posted that but somehow started thinking of the Ja talk here while I was on the trail, and that's what I was gonna say. Idk if anyone here has made D Rose comparisons but I think Ja is even more of a gamer plus more intelligent. It was kinda easy to befuddle Rose st crucial moments w defensive tactics. Guess the advantage prime Rose had was that big body.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
just realized ja is coming up here on thursday. i'm not working this week and should probably just go.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link
"the thing with ja is he seems like a gamer."Left to go hike before Spottie posted that but somehow started thinking of the Ja talk here while I was on the trail, and that's what I was gonna say. Idk if anyone here has made D Rose comparisons but I think Ja is even more of a gamer plus more intelligent. It was kinda easy to befuddle Rose st crucial moments w defensive tactics. Guess the advantage prime Rose had was that big body.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
ok that buzzer beater was amazing but uh the pass by Steven Adams is also insane
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
def go xxp
― Clay, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
my god tickets for this are straight down the road of temptation...i could legit sit courtside 2nd row for 500 bucks which yes is a lot but in the scheme of historical nba ticket pricing is also not a lot
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link
feel like we should change J0rd’s name to J4
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link
Just watched Memphis recap, that dunk from Ja whoaaa
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
interesting heat-bulls game tonight. the heat threw a bunch of different looks at the bulls… had bam on demar, butler on vuc, then started hard doubling demar and lavine off pick and rolls and making anyone else on the floor beat them. held them to 99 points.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:33 (two years ago) link
fuckin ja
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
heat have kinda flown under the radar this season. pretty much all their main guys have missed like 15+ games and theyre still the #1 seed. getting healthy and gelling at the right time. lets just ffwd to the playoffs already
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 05:07 (two years ago) link
the rest of the season in the east should still be pretty good, everyone is so bunched up and the seeding is gonna be really important. there's a scenario where, like, the heat get the 1 seed, philly and milwaukee go 2/3 and the 4/5 is cleveland/chicago w/ the 7 seed being the nets. the heat would only need to get thru the 8 seed and then one of the bulls and cavs to get to the east finals. there's also a scenario where the nets are the 8 seed, the bucks are in the 4/5 and they have to get thru both of them to even get to the east finals. the permutations are gonna have a huge effect on every team.
the rest of the season in the west might be a bit snoozy tho it seems like everything there is just a prelude to the playoffs at this point
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2022 05:15 (two years ago) link
yeah the rest of the season should be fun just no more injuries is all we ask
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 05:20 (two years ago) link
bill simmons floated an interesting educated theory on his pod w rusillo that the league is going to expand to seattle and vegas, with fenway sports, who is already in business with lebron via his part ownership of liverpool, being the leaders to buy the vegas team, and lebron going to play there w/ an understanding that he will get an ownership stake once he retires. and they would prob draft bronny to make it happen. i love it
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2022 07:24 (two years ago) link
oh thats juicy
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 07:44 (two years ago) link
+ return of the supersonics??
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Monday, February 28, 2022 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
update: i bought tickets. going to the game, baby! i can't believe it.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
boom. did you get the courtside seats!?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
niice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
enjoy
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
I was happy the Wolves won but was such a bummer that I saw what might be the worst game Ja Morant ever played, just looked it up
Wolves won 138-95, Ja had 11 points on 3/9 FG, O rebounds, 5 assists, -31
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
yeah 30th metro area population in the middle of an otherwise uninhabited desert, its borderline down there with the pittsburgs kanas citys cininattis and so forth, not sure wed be showering those places with teams if they didnt already have them xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
Vegas is a strange market. It attracts tons of tourists in a spending mood who are looking for entertainment, but it won't have a strong local fan base. Would be nice to see Seattle get a team again.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
yeah be curious to know if their existing teams are attracting tourists, doesnt seem like quite a natural fit but who knows
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
it seems like a foregone conclusion that seattle will get another team. not sure i’ve heard anyone talk about expansion without that being treated as a given
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
wtg cad
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
vegas will def be a destination for visiting fans and now that gambling is basically legal, even more of a destination for all-star games, nba drafts, and such
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
the vegas hockey team reports 104% capacity attendance per game this year bcuz they sell standing room only tickets. i’m sure that’s prob fibbed to some degree but based on a quick google search they seem to actually do fairly well attendance wise. the franchise did have the insane fortune of making the stanley cup in its inaugural season so i do think they were able to quickly build up a genuine local fanbase in a way that is prob not replicable. the raiders reported 93% capacity last year which was in the bottom third of the NFL.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
even if it’s not lebron it feels like a vegas team in the NBA would be likely to try and lure some aging star to sell tickets to tourists instead of building thru the draft and potentially being bad for its first three years
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link